" ken ! remember this old man ? "
" of course ! how can I forget you , elder fang ?"
" well you didnt contact me even once after entering the sect . oh ? 8th level ? "
" surprised ? "
" of course ! most of the new disciples didnt even advance to 4th level yet . how ? "
" no need to think that much elder . I am an alchemist now . see this badge ? hehe.. "
" you really are something else kid . I knew that you were extremely intelligent but alchemist , it's really a surprise ! " elder fang started laughing and pat Ken's head . I felt nice to be praised but all this patting was seriously annoying. " dont you get ahead of yourself now kid ! Preet and paras , those two kids are from the same batch as you and have already reached 2nd level of foundation realm . "
ken didnt show on his face but he was laughing inside because he had already reached 5th level and he had thought that reaching even the foundation level would be hard for him when he just had started cultivating . well he just had to be a genius alchemist . " dont worry elder , you know my personality already. " ken smiled slightly and then elder samantha shouted that it was time to assemble . " see you later , elder fang " . ken also moved and lined up like everyone else before the south gate . he didnt even need to travel because his house was near the gate .
" cough .. now listen up ! the sect competition this time will also be the survival test . you all will receive this black jade each . you have to snatch this jade from other disciples and after 10 days the one with most jades with him will take the first position. killing is allowed because this test is also to teach you the cruel truth of cultivation world . still try to control because in the end you all are from the same sect . lastly , storage rings or any other similar item is not allowed during the test . all the disciples will be checked after the test and the loot will be converted to sect points . as for rewards you all know about them already so I will not bother explaining. now come and receive your jade ! " with a shout the beautiful lady who casually spoke about killing and what not ended her speech.
' what a shameless sect ! even the loot will be confiscated? points ? they just want to control everything and these disciple dont even doubt anything . well it's not like they can do anything about it though . ' ken thought inwardly and recieved his black jade .
soon the huge gate was opened and all the children finally saw the back of island . some for first time and some after a long time . after a while everyone dashed inside while ken leisurely walked in the last .
the forest was huge and the surroundings were only greenery and towering trees. ken finally was out on a small adventure so he was feeling good . after confirming that no elder was checking on them , ken spread his divine sense out and many kilometers radius was visible to him . ken halted his steps just after advancing a few hundred meters inside the forest and a grin involuntarily showed on his face . well he was feeling excited and happy now because he found a well hidden underground spring with his divine sense .
the most important fact was that he found a tree of blue inferno fruit there . of course he was thanking his luck because this was a tier 5 natural treasure and there were 2 fruits glowing brightly in the dim cave . the colour of the fruit was 60 percent dark red and forty percent blue . it had a shape of orange and the size was slightly larger than a baseball.
this fruit was too important to ken because by eating it one will feel immense heat energy and pain but had a chance to awaken dark blue essence fire . the reason was unknown now but ken knew it . the reason was simply because the fruit only has to be eaten for the blue half and the red half was only the part which had retained some fire element after the fruit matured . this fruit was an unusual one because all the essence was concentrated on the blue part and had no seed . the seed was in the red part and one had to bury it again for another fruit tree will grow after 3460 years . this fruit was too rare now so the right knowledge was forgotten in time .
the cave actually had no entrance and was buried deep underground more than 600 hundred meters deep . the sunlight was only there because it passed through some small holes in the ground. the condition of this fruit to grow naturally was extremely thin sunlight , natural underground water and the location must be near a huge dormant volcano . all the exact conditions were available so ken was not suspicious of the origins of fruit and the fact that nobody knew of its existence for so many years is simple. who should bother sending their divine sense deep underground just passing some hundred kilometers from forest entrance . one had to know that it was safe are for more than 16 kilometers from the entrance with no beast and some normal or tier 1 herbs.
ken was just lucky because of excitement for an adventure he released his divine sense from the start and he didnt bother checking about the safe area before entering the forest.